The laws of gravity.....

It was just one of those days yesterday! Everything that could go wrong DID. We discovered more problems in the house. Our handyman has made the electric wiring safe but was furious when he saw they had simply cut some major wires. He said it could have burnt the house down. He is going to see if he has time to crawl under the house as we have no power in some points of the bedroom downstairs. He thinks there is more cut but needs to see if he can find anything. If not, we will have to have an electrician come out later. But he called his father in law who is a heating specialist and he is going to work on the leaking monster I showed you in the last post. Yes, it is even leaking as well as the one like it upstairs in the cupboard holding the central heating. *sigh*

We also think the previous owners removed a radiator off in the living room where there are not connecting pipes standing up when they had the extension built. We talked about having those pipes removed but then Jos realized there is only one sunk radiator for such a large room. We are going to have the man put in a horizontal radiator where the pipes are we think. Andylynne asked if the room was larger than our house now and the answer is yes. That is why we know this sunken heater will never heat this room. We have one in our current house along with two others.

All the drains are stopped up in the house. Jos took the drain apart in the kitchen and clean it out really well then flushed the main pipe out. Then he could not get it back together and it took them forever to work on it.

In the meantime, the filthy dishwasher was removed and we discovered that a half a kitchen was laying under the cupboards along with builders rubble (enlarge photo to see all the junk under the cupboard). Jos got down on his stomach and removed everything. There was one bit of good news. They had told us that the dishwasher leaks but there is nothing of that showing in the kitchen itself. The dishwasher has food in it so we think the filters were all stopped up. Off to order a new one and a new fridge/freezer today.

We had to hurriedly remove all our laminate flooring that is stored in the garage when the drain to connect the hose leaked water all over the garage floor. Those packs are so heavy and Jos had to move them all into the studio on his own. We took the one where the water went through the packaging out so they would not be destroyed.

I am hoping that this is the end of finding extra problems in the house. We continue to try and clean the kitchen. Jos helped me with two cupboards yesterday. In the meantime, the painters hope to get some areas done today and one of our bathrooms will be finished. I will share some before and after photos of a finished bathroom soon.....